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Today, we meet a partner of their campaign, Patrice. on Wooka. Take it away, Patrice. My story starts back in the Caribbean. I was born in a tiny island called Montserrat.
For the most part, most people work in some shape or form in a way that is connected to the government. And Even more. difficult for people is that if you are not connected If you are not wealthy already, The likelihood of your children being able to go to college, go to graduate school. Really achieve beyond what you yourself as an adult is doing. It's very small.
And my parents, they were not connected, they were not wealthy. And they recognized that for us, their children, to be able to achieve greater things, it was not going to happen in this tiny parochial island of Munserat. That's why they decided to move to the United States where there would be so much more opportunity for them.
So they filed for us to come to this country, and my parents went through the entire legal process. It was expensive. It was very long, years, it took years to get through, but they did it. And to do it, they sold our home. They sold the cars.
We had two cars at the time. And they left a pretty decent middle-class lifestyle. They weren't rich, but we had a split-level home. Overlooking the water, which you know, on an island is pretty easy, but still beautiful, gorgeous views. to working people.
And they traded all of that. There was not necessarily parity between the currency and our island and the current and the US dollar. Obviously, our money back then didn't go very far. And they ended up selling everything and moving to the United States with just about five suitcases of clothes and not a lot of money. to start over literally from scratch.
And I think to myself, why in the world would they do this? It wasn't like we moved to Florida, to Miami. We moved to Boston, Massachusetts. We lived in Dorchester. And you're leaving Temperatures of 70 degrees and sunny with a cool ocean breeze every single day.
to move to cold. icy, snowy Boston. where the familiarity All of the things you know, the people you know, you know, are left behind. all of the culture. The experiences that you're accustomed to, the smells.
I mean, waking up and smelling mangoes from the tree outside. Seeing kids playing on the streets.
well into the evening time. Driving on a Saturday to go get a hot, freshly baked loaf of bread with cheese, and watching the sandal guy make slippers across the way while you're under a tamarind tree, enjoying life going by very slowly and calmly to Boston. And not Fanuel Hall in Boston, not Beacon Hill in Boston, not Copley, you know, it's Dorchester. This was in 1985, we moved to Boston. This was during the height of the drug epidemic.
And so. It was like going from... Your coloring book page, where it's full of reds and greens, and blues, and purples, and yellows, and you flip the page, and it's all gray. It's all shades of gray and black. and sombre.
The joy of familiarity has been replaced by the uncertainty of the unknown. And My parents, you know, they found a little apartment. It was in a two-story, I guess it's a three-story house. It was the top attic apartment. It had two bedrooms, one window in the front, and a back door.
So it was it was tiny. very hot in the summertime because there was no AC. You know, we went to the laundromat to wash our clothes, but in between that, we had to wash things by hand.
So, my father was a laborer. He worked for construction companies at the time, and he would. leave in the wee dark hours of the morning. and come back late into the evening. and he would be caked.
caked in mud. And still, my mom, who was an entry-level accountant. She would come home exhausted. understandably. Cook a fresh pot of dinner, usually rice and chicken.
make sure our my brother and I had done our school work and our homework. Put us to bed. And then Head right to the bathroom. where she would take my father's jeans, his work clothes, and fill up the tub and start washing the caked mud out of his jeans. She'd be hunched over the the tiny tub.
on her knees well into the dark night. Oh scrubbing. Those jeans by hand. And once in a while, when I would wake up just to use the bathroom, and I would see her there. I remember that those images and it's like seared into my memory.
It's so vivid that I could just see her tired, just the veins on her hands, you know, burgeoning as she's scrubbing. With soap, you know, my dad's jeans. I mean, that. I learned quickly and early that that is love. That that is sacrifice.
But that is hard work. But that you as a Parent and a spouse, you will do everything and anything to ensure that your family is taken care of and has. what each member needs. And my dad needed clean clothes. And my mom would do that.
And then she'd go to bed and wake up early and start the process all over again. And you know that is part of the hardness of America. because my parents came to this country. Thinking that the streets were paved with gold. I mean, that's the mantra overseas.
Everything is greater than America. When people come back home to visit, they come with money, they have their gold jewelry, they're flashy, they talk about how great things are, and I'm sure things are better for them. But they don't always talk about the challenges, the hardness, the difficulties of assimilation, the difficulties of learning how to make your own way in a country that prides itself on individualism and community, certainly community when it comes to the church and it comes to philanthropy and charity. But there's an element of just you figure it out on your own. And that was part of the hardness and the difficulty of transitioning.
You know, part of also the challenge is just the environment. Rampant drug dealing and violence associated with it spilled over from the groups of kids on the corner to the kids who were just going about their day. And I remember a young woman, I believe her name was Tiffany Smith, she was killed just, what, a block or two from our home. She was on a mailbox, sitting on the mailbox. Probably shouldn't have been out late at night, but she was shot and killed.
And that was a wake-up call in the entire city to recognize that the street violence had to be addressed. But again, my parents will tell you. That despite the challenges, the hardship, the difficulties of living in America, it was worth it. And you've been listening to Patrice Anbuka share her family story. Her assimilation to America from the small island in the Caribbean, Montserrat.
and finding themselves not in Miami, Not even North or South Carolina. But no, Boston, icy cold Boston in Dorchester. A tough suburb outside of Boston. where they had to make do and make their way in a new country. No familiarity, the toughness of the weather, the culture.
I love that she pointed out the smells. My grandfather had come from Sicily and had the same things to tell me. When we come back, more of our True Diversity series with Patrice Anwuka. Here. on our American stories.
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I'm still working on rolling my R's. But what I was able to learn from Stefano was the importance of engaging the tefosi. The Ferrari super fans in the digital age. Ferrari fans and Super fans want to be part of something, want to belong to something.
So they want to be part of a community and ultimately they want to be part of a winning team. You've got Ferrari, which is a long. history design history. And now you're interacting in a kind of digital space. I'm curious how you balance those two.
Traditions. When it comes to fan engagement, it's really digital technology and digital channels are being able to create a deeper connection with our fans. To learn more about how Ferrari and IBM are using technology to build deeper connections with fans, visit ibm.com/slash Ferrari. And we continue with Our American Stories and with Patrice Anbuca's story as part of our True Diversity series. We return to Patrice on her immigrant parents buying their first home in America when she was in the fourth grade.
Buying your first home. is a huge deal. Especially when you've come to this country with so little. Where you have worked menial jobs. worked overtime.
Mm. Giving up time with your family just to ensure that you could put a meal on the table every day. Shoes on the kids' feet. And my parents somehow Working in jobs that collectively paid them less than my first job in DC. And my first job in DC paid very little because I worked for a nonprofit.
But I still made more in that first job than my parents made together when I was growing up. But despite that, They saved and saved for a down payment for a home. And it was a home Miles, at least 45 minutes away, on the very outskirts of the city of Boston. still within city limits. but in a neighborhood where for the first time They could breathe a sigh of relief.
They weren't worried about us getting shot or killed, my brother getting recruited to a gang. It was far, and that meant that when there was a bus strike. I would have to take the public transport rather than the school bus to school. And that was nerve-wracking for my my my mom. Because I was eight years old, a little girl.
And my parents had to work. And so. Two choices. Patrice stays at home. For the however long the school bus strike would be, and it ended up being for months on end.
or Patrice learns to take the transit, public transit by herself. And that was a commute of two bus rides, about 15 to 20 minutes each. as well as a 30-minute train ride in between. A very long trip. And my parents said, you know what?
Her education is too important. And so the first day of the bus strike, my mom, she Figure it out, the root. We took the bus. We took the train, we took another bus, we got off at my school stop, and she said, this is how you do it every day. And she would join me in the morning and then go to work.
And in the afternoon, I was 100% on my own. to do the same route going home. And even in my fourth grade, eight or nine year old heart. I knew I could do it. I wasn't scared one bit.
It was nerve-wracking, and I should have been scared considering some of the things that I saw. I mean, I was, even though I was tall for my age, all I remember were just legs. People were walking like trees because they were so much bigger than me. But imagine seeing a little girl. With two long braids and a backpack on her back and a little purse on her shoulder, navigating through the legs of grown adults, going to school and coming home every day.
And I did it. for months on end until that school by strike finally came to an end because Again, our education was paramount. And we, and even and I learned at that age that I had to be willing to make a sacrifice for my education for what was important. And I did it. And every day my parents came home, They knew that I called my mom when I got home to let her know.
I let myself in. And I was safe. And unfortunately, I look back and look at the kids who. took the other choice. Who did not take the bus or did not find someone else to carpool with?
who literally stayed home for most of the school year. They ended up getting left behind and had to repeat their education at that grade level. It's just a reminder. that the sacrifices are worth it. Um And so it taught me at an early level, early age, just to prize my education, to work hard.
And there were blessings. I call them blessings. Even in the midst of that, I remember for about a week on a stretch, Every afternoon when I got on at the first bus, there would be a dollar in my chair or a dollar in the spot where I would usually sit. And I don't know where that dollar came from. I would look around.
There was no one there.
So I would just take that dollar up and put it in my little purse. And it happened one day, then it happened the next day, then it happened the next day. I truly believe that someone saw a little girl. getting on this the the public transit bus every day to go home from school and said Boy. Let me do something good for her.
And I will never know who that person is. Maybe you're listening. I don't know. Thank you if you are. It taught me a lot about private charity.
Uh But my education, I went to Boston Latin School for high school, went on to Tufts University where I studied economics and political science, and for the first time really understood why I had such a passion for politics. I loved the economy and loved understanding how the micro-decisions that people make as consumers, as business owners, really impacts the larger economy and how. The government's decisions impact the little person, the small business owner, and the individual. And I decided that that is what I really wanted to go into. You know, and one of the things that we did very regularly is that my parents would watch television programs at night, specifically PBS.
They love the McLaughlin group. And over the years, even after we moved out of that apartment and moved into our first home. There was never a week that political commentary shows were not on our television screen. And I hated it. I will be honest.
I thought they were boring, they were annoying. I wanted to watch cartoons or I wanted to watch something where people were laughing. Instead, I would see people yelling back and forth or talking about foreign policy, talking about the economy. Things that to me at a tender age were just as foreign as speaking to someone from another country in another language.
So the irony is that I would become one of those talking heads on television. And it hit me. That moment where you finally made it to a place you never thought you would be, when your mom calls you and says, I was. Getting ready for church on a Sunday morning. And I hear my daughter's voice.
And I live in Washington, D.C. and she's in Boston and she's looking around. And next thing you know, she looks up and sees me on television on a PBS Sunday morning show talking about policy. And she said, I was overjoyed. I had not told her I was gonna be on the show.
In fact, I'd forgotten. You know, I started getting into the television commentary circuit on a regular basis, and I very much am. But to me, it was not a big deal, but to her, To her, it meant the world. Because the little girl who she thought wasn't paying attention to the McLaughlin group or to all of the commentary shows that we would watch, and my parents would watch and debate politics, she never knew that I was taking notes. And in my little heart, a desire to be able to.
Become one of those voices and be representative of the viewpoints that she holds. She never imagined that being part of my destiny. Only in America is something like that possible.
So You know, here you are, you've got... Here I am. I'm a woman. I'm an immigrant. I'm a proud, naturalized American citizen.
I believe in independence and freedom and autonomy. I am so many things wrapped up in one ball of passion and purpose and energy. And sometimes people don't know what to do with me. When they assume that I'm going to think a certain way or view a particular issue from one viewpoint because of my gender or because of my ethnicity or because of my race, and I surprise them and I'm happy to do that. And my gender should not dictate how I view life.
My race does not dictate my worldview. We should be treated as individuals who bring different perspectives, different backgrounds, different lived experiences to the table and treated as such. When we start labeling people and limiting them based just on the superficial. Outward categories, we miss the richness, the textures, the uniqueness that makes every person an individual. And a special thanks to Patrice Onwuka for sharing her story.
Her story has been a part of our True Diversity series sponsored by Philanthropy Roundtable. Learn more at true diversity.org. And Patrice's story is a story of millions of immigrants who come here to improve their lives. What a moment it must have been for Patrice's mom to look at that television and see her daughter on it. Years before.
Patrice was being forced to watch the McLaughlin group by her parents, those same parents. And there she was now on the television, giving her opinions. And by the way, I loved what she said. I am proud to be a naturalized American citizen, she said. My Italian grandparents and my Lebanese grandparents told me the same thing.
when that flag was flying in front of both of their homes, It meant something to them. The story of Patrice Anwuka, part of our true diversity series, here. on our American stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years.
And now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues. Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q.
That's usmint.gov/slash S-E-M-I-Q. Professional wrestling fans, the action continues every week. This This total nonstop action! TNA Thursday Night Impact every week on AMC. For showtimes and more information, visit TNA Wrestling.com.
This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a can't-miss 4th of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances from major artists, patriotic tributes, and the kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history. It's more than just fireworks. Learn more about this landmark celebration at America250.org.
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